Power of Feelings over Thinking
I’m Joan Epler. Welcome to Good Thoughts Podcast. Please join with Dr. Gary Epler, America’s Health Doctor. Dr. Epler discovered the Eplerian Life Philosophy for a new way of life at home and at work. Today we’re going to apply this to feelings and thinking.
I’m Dr. Gary Epler. The new way of life is to know where you’re thinking from and that’s who you are.
What do you mean?
The Eplerian Life Philosophy is based on five locations to think and feel from that include the head, heart, gut, body, and the mind.
What does this have to do with thinking and feeling?
Feel, don’t think. For example, Award-winning actors don’t act. They feel. When they search for a hidden microphone in a room, they feel like they’re searching for an actual microphone. They don’t think and act like they’re looking for a microphone. That’s acting, and the audience knows the difference.
Do you have another example?
Wake up in the morning “feeling” excitement for the day. You’re going to have a new day to share with friends and family. You’re going to be creative at home and at work. You’re going to have a day filled with positive experiences. “Thinking” about having a good day has the opposite response. This results in negative thinking about the problems you’re facing for the day. This is thinking from the crocodile stress center. Feeling the excitement for the day will put a smile on your face, energy in your muscles, and brightness in your eyes.
Do you have a health example?
For healing an injury or illness, feel the healing process, don’t think. Don’t think about the problems. Approach the situation in a positive way with no negative thinking. Feel the positive healing energy.
What do you mean feeling rather than thinking?
Thinking is from the head. It’s being angry. It’s thinking about yourself. It’s thinking about your problems or negative thoughts about yourself or trying to be someone else. It’s stressful. You’re allowed less than ten seconds having these thoughts before this thinking causes the harmful effects of the adrenalin cortisol response. Prolonged adrenalin response causes muscle tension, shuts down the digestive system and the immune system, and causes inflammation leading to heart disease, strokes, and cancer.
What’s the alternative?
Feel, don’t think. Feel from four other locations – the heart, gut, body, and the mind.
What are the feelings from the heart?
Feelings from your heart include kindness, love, giving, appreciation, forgiving, and gratitude. When you realize that you’re angry or stressed from thinking about your yourself, think from the heart with kindness, give something to someone, or help someone. Be grateful for everything you have and positive people in your life.
What is the feeling from the gut and why is this a positive healthy feeling?
Fear is the feeling from the gut. Unlike the negative thinking from the head, fear is a healthy positive feeling because it tells you about potential risk to your health. The primal reason for this feeling is to prevent you from drinking or eating poison. A specific type of smell or appearance of poison sends an instant message to stop. This has expanding to healthy foods in general as your gut or belly brain sends you a feeling not to eat unhealthy foods or too much food. You need to listen. In addition, your gut feeling will help you with making a decision about potentially risky new opportunities or investments.
What do you mean by feelings from the body?
Feel strength from the body and the feel-good feelings in the muscles from exercising. Feel the strength from a healthy standing tall posture.
How does the mind relate to feelings?
This is the most dynamic location to be. Considering the Eplerian Life Philosophy, there’s a difference between the brain and the mind. They’re not the same.
What do you mean by the brain?
The brain is the physical organ system in the head that has several independent brain regions, two regions with feelings of anger and stress. Limit thinking from these two regions to less than ten seconds.
How do you define the mind?
The mind is outside the body. The mind contains all past, present, and future information and knowledge. Access to the mind requires slower brainwave states such as alpha brainwaves, theta brainwaves, or even the very slow delta brainwaves at four cycles per second.
What are the feelings of the mind?
When in the brain is in the slow brainwave state, the feelings from the mind include serenity, total calmness, universal acceptance and belonging, and unconditional love. These feelings include new feelings outside the body such as the feeling of not always needing to do something. This is a feeling not experienced while in the normal waking brainwave state. Additional feelings from the mind include courage, attention, accomplishment, and success.
Feel, not think. Feel like you’re going to have a great day. Feel like you’re going to enjoy being with friends, family, and coworkers. Do you have any closing comments?
I agree, feel, don’t think. Feel kindness and giving from the heart. Feel fear from your gut to avoid unhealthy risks. Feel energy from your muscles. Feel courage from your mind to be your true authentic self for living an extraordinary life.
